Google and Adobe Share Their Video Accessibility Strategies
March 15, 20122:00pm - 3:00pm ET
Naomi BlackAccessibility Engineering Program Manager Google@GoogleAccess
Andrew KirkpatrickGroup Product Manager AccessibilityAdobe Systems@AdobeAccess
Josh MillerCo-Founder3Play Media@3playmedia
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Overview
● Introduction● Why Caption?● CVAA Recap● Adobe: Andrew Kirkpatrick● Google: Naomi Black● Q&A
Why Caption?
● 48 million deaf and hard of hearing people○ 15% of your visitors/users!
● Captions allow users / companies to search videos
● People who speak English as a second language
● Noisy places / places where volume is muted
● Legislation - CVAA, Section 508
CVAA Compliance dates
● Prerecorded and unedited content – 6 months
○ 6 month deadline likely to impact fall programming
● Edited content – 12 months
● Live content – 18 months
○ Specific dates not yet set○ Rules have not been officially published in the Federal
Register.
● Archival content – 24 months
○ Content already online, without captions
Control for Users
● Platform vs. Application managed● Users provided with ability to control:
○ Character color, opacity, size, edge attributes
○ Fonts
○ Caption background color and opacity
○ Caption window color
○ Language
Adobe Premiere Pro
● Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5 offers video editors the ability to import closed captioning data and review results for accurate integration into video.
● Premiere Pro supports speech analysis and script alignment to help video production teams more easily support closed captioning in their workflows.
○ Import CEA-608 and CEA-708 caption data
● Premiere Pro supports caption data export for traditional or HD video, via 3rd party plugins.
Adobe Flash Professional
● Adobe Flash Professional CS 5.5 supports closed captioning using an open standard.
○ W3C TTML 1.0 caption format.● Adobe Flash provides the ability for
authors to provide video overlays, for example to allow for the addition of a sign language version for video
● Adobe Flash has provided captioning support for TTML since April 2007.
Adobe Captivate
● Adobe Captivate supports closed captioning for eLearning presentations and demonstrations.
● Authors utilize the built-in closed captioning tool in Adobe Captivate to author captions.
Open Source Media Framework
● OSMF supports captioning via TTML presently and a plugin for SMPTE-TT is available but also under further development.
● OSMF supports audio description via “late binding audio”: http://tinyurl.com/latebinding
● Demo (after YouTube demo)
Google - Goals for Captioning
● Every video has closed captions○ Make captioning easy to do○ Re-use existing caption files○ Captioning benefits (beyond accessibility!)
● Captions meet consumer needs○ Distinction between TV and Web is blurred○ Captions should just work everywhere○ Consumers should be able to control display
● Caption our own videos
Google - YouTube Scale
● 4 billion+ views a day
● 60 hrs of video uploaded every minute
● We support 155 languages and dialects
● > 1.6 million videos have closed captions
● 135 million videos have automatic captions
Google - Tools for Caption Creation
● Speech Recognition in 3 languages○ Automatic captions (pure speech recognition)○ Auto-timing (transcript synchronization)
● Support for many caption formats ○ SRT, SBV, CAP, SCC, EBU-STL, more...
● Support for MPEG-2 Import of CEA-608
● Bulk Caption Uploader Tool ○ http://apiblog.youtube.com/2011/01/youtube-captions-uploader-web-app.html
Demo - YouTube
Captions on YouTube● Finding captioned videos
○ Start playing at... adds value.○ Captions make videos easier to find
● Captions on Movies and Shows
● CEA-608 Demo○ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlUG8F9uVgM○ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEKLqMS_HuA
Demo - OSMF
Q&A
● Contacting Naomi Black:○ email [email protected]○ http://gplus.to/naomib○ @googleaccess
● Contacting Andrew Kirkpatrick○ [email protected]○ @awkawk○ @adobeaccess
● Contacting Josh Miller/3Play Media○ [email protected]○ @3playmedia
